Ready. Set. Pop. Finally, Pop Montreal is here. Strange then that we're already at the halfway point of our Pop Preview podcasts, but that's how the time space continuum works (check here if you missed episode #1 and #2). Helping me out with this episode are not one but two glorious co-hosts: the ornery but organized Greg Bouchard and the excitable but eloquent Risa Dickens, who tells us about an Indyish showcase she's got happening on Friday night.

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It's a rambunctious rundown of shows happening on the 3rd day of Pop, Oct. 2 on this Midnight Poutine Podcast:

Hannah Georgas - Chit Chat
Boats - TV Scientist (un-mastered)
Golden Isles - Take It
Murder Ford Monument - The King Is Dead
The Black Hollies - Paisley Pattern Ground
Ira Lee - Montreal (feat. Khyro)
Choeur Maha - Hard Pill
Giant Hand - The Villagers Hate This Villager
Woodpigeon - Knock Knock
Lee Fields & the Expressions - Ladies
The Dø - At Last
Le Kid & Les Marinellis - Camille
Demon Claws - Wrong Side of Town
Ruckus Roboticus - Love Locked Down (Remix)

photo of the soulful lee fields without the expressions from his myspace. lee is just one of the legendary classics the organizer of Pop's 8th edition have wooed to town.